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[BSK]

Seriously? Not even colours or champion mechs on sale?

[Scout Derek]

They don't always have to, in fact, they can do nothing at all anymore if this is what's going to happen every time there's no event or challenge every 1-2 weeks...

Just filler content, to be short and simple:

They don't always have to do events every 1-2 weeks.

There's a halloween event on it's way probably.

[MrJeffers]

There should be a PTS bonus weekend. You get 150% of your PTS match C-bills and GXP that you collect over the weekend credited to your main account.

[Kraftwerkedup]

Nope. They cant do the PTS and events at the same time. They dont have enough staff.

Everyone is either making new Mechpacks for your dollar, or working on the PTS. Im not even sure our community manager has anything to do with events and sales. So Tina is probably twiddling her thumbs waiting for someone to ban or directing feedback to the blackhole where it implodes, never to be seen again.

Edited by Kraftwerkedup, 16 October 2015 - 09:36 AM.

[Kraftwerkedup]

And of course if money or 'free stuff that people could have spent money on' is involved...Paul and Russ will have the say on that.

Tina seems great, but theres no way they actually let her do real community management. Thats not how PGI roles, and besides, shes been there less than a year (though we gotta be nearing her year anniversary), I doubt they trust their limited income on someone who basically just reads the forums and bans people.

They really need to hire a game designer and a real community manager, who actually writes up all the releases, does the events, connects with the community, hosts Let's Plays, Twitch Streams, and Cons.

At least I see her actually playing the game when I play my low tier alts.

But yeah...

Events were only weekly when IGP went down in flames and PGI was trying to save face....duh.

Those went out the window when them posting on the forums stopped in January.

[BSK]

Scout Derek, on 16 October 2015 - 09:35 AM, said:

There's a halloween event on it's way probably.

Thats at the end of the month, then we have 4 consecutive weekends without anything. And as a tier 1 I will not play on the test server ..

[xengk]

They don't want to distract the barely handful of player from the PTS.

[Clownwarlord]

Well while I do not have an issue with them not running anything (since Halloween is coming and we do not need an event every week) I just hope they are using the time from instead of an event working on meat of the game which I am completely 100% cool with. I just also hope it pays off with a better game down the road.

[Tyler Valentine]

xengk, on 16 October 2015 - 09:49 AM, said:

They don't want to distract the barely handful of player from the PTS.

Rewards for participating in the PTS would scratch both itches...

[xengk]

Tyler Valentine, on 16 October 2015 - 09:54 AM, said:

Rewards for participating in the PTS would scratch both itches...

Yes please.
I have been sitting here for 30 minutes trying to get a match.

But if there is reward involved, expect people will be in the PTS to farm rewards instead of testing.

[Goose]

Events motivate the player base to drive funny, and Teh Devs are still trying to get PSRs' logistic distribution to settle down …

[Alan Davion]

Kraftwerkedup, on 16 October 2015 - 09:36 AM, said:

Nope. They cant do the PTS and events at the same time. They dont have enough staff.

Everyone is either making new Mechpacks for your dollar, or working on the PTS. Im not even sure our community manager has anything to do with events and sales. So Tina is probably twiddling her thumbs waiting for someone to ban or directing feedback to the blackhole where it implodes, never to be seen again.

They did that once and everyone was playing the event. PTS didn't get shite for players and nothing was properly tested because Paul didn't tell people how to actually test the build before they launched it.

They need to do their shite one thing at a time from now on if they hope to do stuff properly.

[Oberost]

BSK, on 16 October 2015 - 09:44 AM, said:

Thats at the end of the month, then we have 4 consecutive weekends without anything. And as a tier 1 I will not play on the test server ..

Why not? As a T1 player you should (and I remark should...) be more experienced than 4/5 of the playerbase, so your input on the test server would be greatly appreciated.

Or you just play when there is an event up?

BTW, I'm glad about the lack of events the last weekends. Too much grind, too bad teamplay...

[Lugh]

Kraftwerkedup, on 16 October 2015 - 09:36 AM, said:

Nope. They cant do the PTS and events at the same time. They dont have enough staff.

Everyone is either making new Mechpacks for your dollar, or working on the PTS. Im not even sure our community manager has anything to do with events and sales. So Tina is probably twiddling her thumbs waiting for someone to ban or directing feedback to the blackhole where it implodes, never to be seen again.

They also don't have enough players for both.

They keep digging themselves in to a smaller and narrower hole.

Goose, on 16 October 2015 - 09:59 AM, said:

Events motivate the player base to drive funny, and Teh Devs are still trying to get PSRs' logistic distribution to settle down …

It can't possibly settle. The player base is too small to have both QUICK and fair and balanced matches at the same time.

Heck it has a hard time getting a match formed up over the course of several minutes. That IS NOT GOOD.

[Ronan]

There's no sale this weekend? Really?

What's this: http://mwomercs.com/...you-purchase-mc

[LordNothing]

there is kind of a sale going on. buy mc, get free stuff.

nvm. im stupid and illiterate.

Edited by LordNothing, 16 October 2015 - 02:58 PM.

[BSK]

Oberost, on 16 October 2015 - 10:31 AM, said:

Why not? As a T1 player you should (and I remark should...) be more experienced than 4/5 of the playerbase, so your input on the test server would be greatly appreciated.

Or you just play when there is an event up?

BTW, I'm glad about the lack of events the last weekends. Too much grind, too bad teamplay...

As a T1 you get waiting times between 10 and 20 minutes for a random match. I get into matches that expect me to deal 700 to 900 damage or we lose. I absolutely cannot level my new mechs in random matches right now. As the PSR score is based on damage and prefers the damage output by heavy and assault mechs, I have no idea how I am going to skill my 4 Wolfhound mechs next week. None of my Mauler or Black Knights are finished, 2 of the Black Knights are untouched.

So why would I play on the test server when I need to use any chance to get some XP on my new mechs? I dont think its 4/5th btw, its probably more around 9/10th, I don't want the new balance based on skilled people, it needs to welcome new players.

[Oberost]

BSK, on 17 October 2015 - 09:42 AM, said:

As a T1 you get waiting times between 10 and 20 minutes for a random match. I get into matches that expect me to deal 700 to 900 damage or we lose. I absolutely cannot level my new mechs in random matches right now. As the PSR score is based on damage and prefers the damage output by heavy and assault mechs, I have no idea how I am going to skill my 4 Wolfhound mechs next week. None of my Mauler or Black Knights are finished, 2 of the Black Knights are untouched.

So why would I play on the test server when I need to use any chance to get some XP on my new mechs? I dont think its 4/5th btw, its probably more around 9/10th, I don't want the new balance based on skilled people, it needs to welcome new players.

Well, I'm not T1 (just low T2, pretty low) but I've been leveling my Black Knights and Crabs (the Mauler was quite easy...), doing less than stellar and not scoring too much damage but my psr still went up, so there's no problem with that.

In fact, as long as you don't play abysmal your psr goes up so...

[MischiefSC]

The PTS is an opportunity to be involved in game balance decisions. As a whole I think we want to shout about that but not actually do anything about it, so we'll just get whatever PGI does and complain. Since being involved is, apparently, more effort than it's worth.

500 damage is enough to at least break even in T1. Winning is more important though, you need to be either wrecking face in an assault or pugbossing. Or settle in for a long haul to max your bar out.

There is no wait on PTS based on rank. There's no rank based MM on PTS; you show up, if 23 other people are there, you drop. It's that simple. You also get a billion cbills and GXP and MC so you can buy/test/level whatever you want.

There's no sale right now other than the MC sale because it's hard enough getting people to get involved in game balance as is. We complained last time, so they listened. Which we are now complaining about. Not just the no contest but we're now complaining that we got a limited, iterative PTS with no other quirks and IW.

[Galenit]

Oberost, on 17 October 2015 - 10:00 AM, said:

In fact, as long as you don't play abysmal your psr goes up so...

Win a match with 55 damage, 1 kill and some narcs used and you get the green arrow.